One little problem

[skimom2]

...no, the slapper is the sock as Walter mentioned....

Yeah, that's why I related it in my mind to a slapjack:


Effective weapon. When we lived in San Antonio, there had been a rash of car jackings so my dad carried a weighted end of a pool cue right next to the driver's seat--pretty much the same thing but less flexible.

 

[AnnaMarie]

Soz. I forgot about the spoilers.
Will try to remember.

Don't worry. I'm less than 100 pages left, so near the end.

And you didn't give away the ending.

~~~

I went page by page, wanting to see where the a Happy Slapper was first mentioned and how.

Hodge is thinking of taking one gun, then thinks of the other, then settles on the Happy Slapper. Since I had no idea what that is, I assumed it was his name for the gun. (People name their cars, I assume some name their guns too.)

 

[AnnaMarie]

And I should also add, it was the combination of Thing One, Thing Two, and Happy Slapper, that was frustrating me. Since the last is a term familiar to everyone else,and the Things are cutesy names made up by one character, it all makes sense and fits and I bow to THE KING.

 

[FlakeNoir]

I haven't gotten quite that far.

Oh no... I tried to use the spoilers but actually thought you had finished the story, I'm so sorry...

 

[AnnaMarie]

I didn't have to open them, did I? My own fault. But, as I said, nobody has actually given away the ending.

 

[prufrock21]

Here's a list!

I need some:
1. Lunch-meat...big into salami this time of summer
2. Loaf of Bread
3. Coke...we're out of Coke (the soft-drink)
4. Eggs...for hard-boiled
5. Chops for supper tonight
6. some chocolate, don't matter what, chocolate.
7. we're out of bar-b-q sauce
8. and some tangy salad dressing
9. and one surprise.

Don't forget

Spoiler

jahoobies

 

[Heislerette]

Happy Slapper - Ball bearings in a sock that is used to hit people. Thing One - Brady's Computer ( the line of of them) Thing Two - The remote control that grabs people security lock information and also has the toggle switch for the explosives.